Meals on Wheels to serve 12,000 fewer meals due to sequestration

You’ve got to be kidding me? The White House is living it large while funding is being cut for Meals on Wheels? I guess this is their version of “let them eat cake”:

WTVD – Meals on Wheels of Wake County will be serving 12,000 less meals this year due to huge federal budget cuts also known as sequestration.

In February, the automatic federal budget cuts kicked in and the impact has been felt across the country.

However, Meals on Wheels of Wake County said it recently received word from the Area Agency on Aging for the Triangle J Council of Governments about their loss in funding.

“Cuts in federal funding means that we must leave qualified participants on a waiting list and potentially cut current clients,” Meals on Wheels Executive Director Alan Winstead said in a press release Monday. “At a time when more people are turning 60, more seniors are living longer, and more seniors are at risk for going hungry, we need more, not fewer, resources to meet the needs of our community.”

Winstead said Meals on Wheels is working hard to draw attention to the serious issue of senior hunger in Wake County and how the problem can be eased with increased public and private funding.

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temi227

All is well as long as the Obama’s get their vacations, and party it up with the more wealthy among us.

DicksTrash

You can’t push old people over the cliff on a full stomach! I thought everybody knew that.

StewieGriffin

“Meals on Wheels of Wake County will be serving 12,000 less meals this
year due to huge federal budget cuts also known as sequestration.”
The media working its magic.

As much as the news sickens me each day, knowing that the truth is purposefully hidden, skewed, manipulated, or outright lied about to protect the Ruling Class in Washington, the thought that we STILL HAVE THREE MORE YEARS OF THIS GARBAGE is enough to make me not want to ever get out of bed again.

This is so disgusting. OK so yes, these are actually the cuts compared to spending: http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/wp-content/uploads/sequestration_cuts_in_perspective.jpg but it’s those who need it most who are getting the cuts. Military, and old people. Dang it, I used to help deliver meals back home and these people wouldn’t have survived without those meals.
Stupid government employees get their freaking raise, wassername whines rep-debbie-wasserman-schultz-worried-about-near-starving-staffers-as-a-result-of-budget-cuts actually SAYS:

“We have to come together and promote initiatives that improve the quality of life in the House of Representatives….We already have employees who are making a sacrifice to engage in public service as a career choice. Being priced out of being able to actually eat a high quality meal should not be one of the challenges that they face.”
Oh poor dear pencil pushing bureaucrats can’t have filet Mignon every night. Well, Debbie, now thanks to dear leader and the rest of you, Grandma will be hard pressed to be able to afford alpo for dinner. You hypocritical vile crapweasles!

njmom

AmericanborninCanada Couldn’t have said it better myself. “Hypocritical vile crapweasels” I like it!

njmom

AmericanborninCanada Couldn’t have said it better myself. “Hypocritical vile crapweasels” I like it!

njmom

AmericanborninCanada Couldn’t have said it better myself. “Hypocritical vile crapweasels” I like it!

Rshill7

Breaking: Big explosion at the Boston marathon. It’s on Fox News.

Bac Si68

This is how he intends to reduce Medicare spending. The North Korean Plan. The menu at the Private residence located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Grilled Sea Bass and mama Obama organic vegetables. Topped off with Cuban cigars brought back by Jay Z from his vacation.

YoJoe

I think
There should be another BIG PARTY in the White House to celebrate !

Laurel A they’d only do that to get elected. even then, they wouldn’t make too much of an effort. sigh

Laurel A

AmericanborninCanada Laurel A True…unfortunately.

1RandiStarr

That’s what, 1 personal trainer for Queen Obama.

OneThinDime

1RandiStarr It’s one day of pooper scooping and Bo walking.

Duane Hardy

I used to do Meals on Wheels…I had 45 deliveries every morning….they give you routes…I do know that some of the people getting these meals pay for them and the people that deliver the meals are doing it for free. I didn’t earn a dime and in fact it cost me because I paid for my own gas…..This is what gets me. Now they are cutting back on Meals on wheels and when Obama got in office I worked in home health care and more than have the clients being served were placed in Nursing homes because their care hours were cut back so far they were forced out of their homes…People don’t see a lot of this but Obama’s cut backs have hurt a lot of people and Obama care has destroyed company/employee insurance…my insurance used to be considered a “Cadillac Plan” but now I pay twice as much and get half the coverage..my health care is as bad as it’s been sense Clinton was in office where my job paid me to NOT take their healthcare plan….

OneThinDime

Duane Hardy You still have a Cadillac plan if you pay more than $10,800/yr in premiums and will see the tax on it in 2018.

IvanCardona

That this man has an approval rating of 53 person as of today, is mind-numbing. We are have a population half of which are mindless walking zombies that would be qualified to substitute on The View. Welcome to the Night Of The LIving Dead.

OneThinDime

The Admin needs to deal with SS and Medicare bankruptcies someone. ObamaCare isn’t working fast enough.

applepie101

Why was Meals On Wheels receiving taxpayer money in the first place? It should be a private charity. So far, the only thing ‘sequestration’ has proven is how much of our tax money is being diverted toward unconstitutional purposes.

OneThinDime

Election consequences ObamaBots. If it isn’t you, maybe it’s a family member.

M_Minnesota

More Kobe Beef for Jay Z and friends at the White House!!

mcgurn

I’ll bet all the illegals are eating good! And yes,hussein & moochell keep slammin’ down that kobe beef with all their friends every week. You know,those darn seniors are just too damn fat! And obumma has to do something because full blown obamacare & the death panel for elders hasn’t kicked in yet.

Jpclarksville

I’m sure that plenty of people scamming the system and the illegals aren’t missing any meals

tdaly

Meals for Wheels shouldn’t be a government assisted program anyway. See what happens when we let the government take over charity.

mikeinidaho

1) that’s what communist dictators do – starve out the unneeded lowlife peasants.
2) If thay voted for that dirtbag, they are getting just what they deserve…and what many of us told them they’d get – screwed!

OConstitutionO

Many elderly who have no other care givers to cook/make meals and cant get to store only have these meals. Its one meal delivered for the day (business days). I have only personally seen this program in the senior community as a positive, much needed program-after the elderly are assessed to see if the meals are needed. I don’t believe the churches or other meal programs deliver, although I could be wrong. So, in my humble opinion, this would “starve out” some elderly. Depopulate?

tinlizzieowner

Speaking of ‘meals’ The Obama’s aren’t missing any. 😉
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I wonder what the Liberal Bias (it is far
beyond bias) Media would have said if this were a Republican
President!

Obama daughters are paid staff
obtained by Judicial
Watch March, 2012

Here’s another story you will
not hear or read from the “Drive-by Media”
THIS IS TRUE: CHECK IT OUT
FOR YOURSELF (SEE LINKS AT BOTTOM)
UNBELIEVABLE
THIEVERY.
The Obama Daughters are
Michelle’s ‘Senior Staffers’
Michelle was caught cheating
on her expense report. What a show of arrogance!
This information was obtained
by Judicial Watch March, 2012. The administration had to be sued to get this
through the FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.
Michelle Obama listed
daughters as ‘Senior Staffers’ to justify her expensive African vacation and
safari.
October 5, 2011, Judicial
Watch said the U.S. Air Force provided a C-32 ( a Boeing 757 ), modified by the
military for the purpose of flying big-wigs around the world, to fly the First
Lady and her entourage to and from Africa , at a cost of $424,142. Another
$928.44 was listed as ‘bulk food’ costs per meal for the192 on board meals for
the 21 people who made the trip. Lobster ain’t cheap when you fly it around the
world.
The Obama daughters were
listed on the manifest as senior staff. ‘This trip was as much an opportunity
for the Obama family to go on a safari as it was a trip to conduct government
business,’ said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. ‘This junket wasted tax
dollars and the resources of our over extended military. No wonder we had to sue
to pry loose this information.’ The nation is suffering with the economy
sputtering, the national debt soaring and Obama’s economic rescue policies not
only failing, but actively making things worse.
Meanwhile, the First Lady
justifies an expensive trip to Africa to take a vacation and safari with her
daughters by saying it’s ‘official business’ and even going so far as to list
her children as staffers. The level of arrogance and dishonesty on display here
is nothing short of shocking.
But, ‘hope for change’ –
when?
It’s a true story. Check out
these links and read it for yourself:http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-documents-detailing-the-cost-to-taxpayers-for-michelle-obama-s-family-trip-to-africa/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-documents-detailing-the-cost-to-taxpayers-for-michelle-obama-s-family-trip-to-africa/
Folks, if the truth gets out,
you will have to be the one to pass the info along to others. The major media
outlets would NOT DARE say anything negative about the poster child for
diversity and Marxism! Can you imagine what the liberal news media would say
about a Republican pulling such a stunt? Out and out lying! God save the nation
from this administration of the Obama-nation!